Healthy Ways to Unpack Thoughts and Emotions

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(BONUS EPISODE 1) Unlock the secrets to understanding and expressing your emotions effectively with our latest bonus episode. Dive into the world of emotional vocabulary and discover how to articulate your feelings beyond the surface level. We promise you'll learn to navigate life's uncontrollable moments with grace and clarity. This episode is packed with practical exercises, starting with the simple yet powerful question: "What is going on with me?" By using tools like the feeling wheel, you'll expand your emotional lexicon, allowing for more precise and meaningful self-expression. Whether through conversation or writing, you'll gain insights into preventing emotional overload and maintaining inner peace.

Join us as we guide you through the process of unpacking emotions healthily, ensuring that you don't internalize feelings that could lead to emotional outbursts. By writing down your true emotions using descriptive words, you create a sanctuary of self-expression, even if an immediate supportive environment isn't available. As you reflect on your emotions and triggers, freely letting thoughts flow on paper, you'll confront and manage your feelings constructively. Until our next episode, remember that kindness towards yourself and others is paramount. Tune in and transform how you process your thoughts amidst life's challenges.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:42

Hello there, how are you on today? I hope you're having a wonderful day so far. And this is a bonus episode, and this is the episode where I will show you how you can process your thoughts when things are happening that you cannot control. So this is an activity bonus episode. So get out your paper and pen, let's get to it.

Speaker 1: 1:09

So how can you process your thoughts when things are happening that you cannot control? First, I want you to understand that thinking is good. It is good to process your thoughts when you are, you know, going through things. When things are not going, when things are good, when things are bad, it is good to process your thoughts. So let's get to the first thing that you are to do Write down this question what is going on with me? What is going on with me? What is going on with me? And when you answer this question, it needs to be feeling words.

Speaker 1: 1:48

Feeling words are so important and I know that most people have basic feeling words like mad, glad, sad. But it is so good if we can start learning more feeling words. If you want to learn more feeling words, you can Google the feeling wheel, the feeling wheel. It will have a chart of so many feeling words that you can actually learn like depressed, thoughtful, intimate, trusting, scared, submissive, anxious, confused, hostile, lonely, peaceful, responsive, detached, sleepy, thankful, confident, optimistic, thankful, confident, optimistic, fascinating, overwhelmed, embarrassed, insignificant, discouraged, embarrassed. So it's many, many words on this feeling word and it's good to know what is going on with you, with strong feeling words because when people ask us what's going on with you, we can tell them a feeling word, because that feeling word will be able to just actually speak for you. So it's good to have more feeling words and, like I said before, if you want to know more feeling words, just Google the feeling wheel W-H-E-E-L.

Speaker 1: 3:29

So the question that you are to first answer is what is going on with me With some feeling words? Okay, because I do want you to be able to express your feelings, express your thoughts. So if you say I am frustrated, okay, what is making you frustrated? What got you frustrated? And that's when you start expressing frustrated thoughts, because sometimes people do you know, express themselves emotionally. So sometimes you will start talking and, depending on if you're talking in the heat of the moment or in the midst of the problem, then, yes, that frustration is going to show up, you know, through your thoughts. So make sure that you are somewhere where you can have a safe space to speak what you need to speak. But just in case you do not have a safe space, you can most definitely write down these things on paper, because they tend to flow out easier when you're writing them down anyway.

Speaker 1: 4:42

So this is the first thing to do ask yourself what is going on with you with feeling words. And when you write down that feeling word, I want you to ask yourself what got me? Whatever that feeling word is, you know, and just spill, spill it out on the paper. Okay, because this is the way of how you can process those thoughts and those feelings. Instead of internalizing because internalizing your feelings does not work All you're going to do is just pack it, pack it, pack it on the inside and next thing, you know you're going to explode and, baby, it ain't no telling what you're going to be looking like when you explode. It ain't no telling you're going to explode and, baby, it ain't no telling what you're going to be looking like when you explode. It ain't no telling what's going to happen. So be mindful of that, that you are not internalizing your thoughts and feelings, all right. So until you get to the next episode. Be kind to yourself as well as to others.